I installed the beta version of Windows 7 couple of days ago… it seems Microsoft finally put itself together and heading to the right direction…
There are a few new things in this version of Windows.
First of all, startup times seem to be a little bit shorter. On my PC(AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+, overclocked to 2.94Ghz, 1TB SATA 7200rpm hard drive, and 4GB of RAM), it takes about 35 seconds from the moment I see “Starting Windows”, to the login screen, then roughly another 30 seconds to a fully responsive desktop. Nothing major, though, comparing to Windows XP, which took about 80 seconds to boot.
The taskbar has gotten wider, somewhat mimicking Dock in OSX. you can drag applications onto it, so their icons are showing in the taskbar, even when they are not running.
Don’t get too excited just yet, Windows 7 only solved some issues with Vista, such as the ever so annoying UAC popups, and random disk access for no reason. There’s nothing revolutionary, however.
It’s still the same old Start menu, still doesn’t recognize all my 4GB of RAM, still vulnerable to millions of viruses and trojans.
Posted by John Zheng